[Spambayes] should we warn about grossly mismatched training sets?

Meyer, Tony T.A.Meyer at massey.ac.nz
Sat Sep 27 22:43:58 EDT 2003


[Anthony]
> Just wondering - should the various user interfaces display a 
> warning if someone's training set gets seriously out of 
> whack? Say, more than a 4:1 ratio in the spam/ham ratio (in 
> either direction)?

The Outlook plug-in already does this.  (Well, cvs does - I can't recall
if it made it into 008.1 or not).  The warning kicks in at 5:1/1:5 and
is in the main dialog.

I'll add a similar warning to the web interface; no idea why I didn't
add them both at the same time...

=Tony Meyer



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